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The usage of Against vs With #1 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:38 pm   The usage of Against vs With
 

Please look at the sentence below:
''It is important to know what colours look good against your skin.''
Does that sentence sound good? Does the preposition ''against'' have to be replaced with ''WITH"
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The usage of Against vs With #2 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:57 pm   The usage of Against vs With
 

Hi Duc,

'Against your skin' is rather impersonal and would be used more with 'against the background/wall' and so on. I would agree 'with' is better but I think 'goes well with' is perhaps even better.

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The usage of Against vs With #3 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 14:32 pm   The usage of Against vs With
 

I'd add that "against your skin" sounds better when used to talk about material that will come into contact with your skin.

e.g.

''It is important to know what materials feel good against your skin.''
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The usage of Against vs With #4 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 15:07 pm   The usage of Against vs With
 

Thank you for your quick reply!
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The usage of Against vs With #5 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 15:32 pm   The usage of Against vs With
 

By the way,if you don't mind Alan (a digression from this subject Very Happy) can you tell me why the ''profile column'' (I don't know how to translate this) is put to the right of the screen?
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